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48 results for Elliptical Slice Sampling

Extended elliptical slice sampling for infinite-dimensional spaces, proving reversibility.

problem Proving reversibility of elliptical slice sampling in infinite-dimensional spaces.
method Extended elliptical slice sampling to infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert spaces, providing an alternative proof of reversibility.
result The approach yields a positive semi-definite Markov operator, proving reversibility.

Elliptical slice sampling converges geometrically, providing reliable sampling for Bayesian learning.

problem Sampling from posterior distributions in Bayesian learning.
method Elliptical slice sampling, geometric ergodicity.
result Elliptical slice sampling yields geometric convergence guarantees under weak regularity assumptions.

A new algorithm speeds up elliptical slice sampling for truncated multivariate normals.

problem Efficiently sampling from truncated multivariate normal distributions with linear constraints.
method Adapting elliptical slice sampling to linearly truncated multivariate normals, with an algorithm for ellipse-polytope intersection in O(m log m) time.
result The algorithm enhances numerical stability, speeds up running time, and is easy to parallelize.

In this work, it is shown that a simply-connected, rationally-elliptic torus orbifold is equivariantly rationally homotopy equivalent to the quotient of a product of spheres by an almost-free, linear torus action, where this torus has rank equal to the number of odd-dimensional spherical factors in the product. As an a…

2014-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Probabilistic models are conceptually powerful tools for finding structure in data, but their practical effectiveness is often limited by our ability to perform inference in them. Exact inference is frequently intractable, so approximate inference is often performed using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). To achieve the…

2012-10-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Many probabilistic models introduce strong dependencies between variables using a latent multivariate Gaussian distribution or a Gaussian process. We present a new Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for performing inference in models with multivariate Gaussian priors. Its key properties are: 1) it has simple, generic c…

2009-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Nested Slice Sampling accelerates Nested Sampling for GPU acceleration.

problem Challenging inference for complex, multimodal targets.
method Vectorized Nested Slice Sampling using Hit-and-Run Slice Sampling.
result NSS maintains accurate evidence estimates and high-quality posterior samples, robust on multimodal problems.

The paper provides a new inequality for 4-manifolds and uses it to study knot sliceness and symplectic embeddings.

problem Understanding sliceness of knots and symplectic embeddings in 4-manifolds.
method An adjunction inequality for embedded surfaces in 4-manifolds with contact boundaries.
result Infinitely many knots are topologically H-slice but not smoothly H-slice in certain 4-manifolds.

ESS improves MCMC efficiency for correlated & multimodal distributions.

problem Slice Sampling's sensitivity to initial length scale and difficulty with correlated distributions.
method Adaptive tuning and parallel walkers for efficient sampling.
result ESS improves efficiency by more than an order of magnitude on correlated distributions.

Bayesian inference was once a gold standard for learning with neural networks, providing accurate full predictive distributions and well calibrated uncertainty. However, scaling Bayesian inference techniques to deep neural networks is challenging due to the high dimensionality of the parameter space. In this paper, we …

2019-07-17abs ↗pdf ↗

This work investigates the properties of Gaussian-smoothed sliced divergences for comparing distributions.

problem Comparing probability distributions while preserving privacy.
method Investigates the theoretical properties of Gaussian-smoothed sliced Wasserstein distance and generalized versions.
result Gaussian smoothed sliced Wasserstein distance converges with a rate of \(O(n^{-1/2})\).

ESS-Flow guides flow models without retraining, using Bayesian inference in source space.

problem Training flow models on paired data for conditional generation or sample production.
method Gradient-free Bayesian inference in source space using Elliptical Slice Sampling.
result Effective in diverse tasks including material design and protein structure prediction.

We unify slice sampling and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling, demonstrating their connection via the Hamiltonian-Jacobi equation from Hamiltonian mechanics. This insight enables extension of HMC and slice sampling to a broader family of samplers, called Monomial Gamma Samplers (MGS). We provide a theoretical anal…

2016-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an exact slice sampler for Hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) and its associated mixture models (Teh et al., 2006). Although there are existing MCMC algorithms for sampling from the HDP, a slice sampler has been missing from the literature. Slice sampling is well-known for its desirable properties includin…

2019-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for comparing image probability measures using convolution operators.

problem Efficiently comparing images using conventional sliced Wasserstein methods.
method Proposed convolution sliced Wasserstein (CSW) methods with stride, dilation, and non-linear activation.
result CSW demonstrates favorable performance over conventional sliced Wasserstein in image comparison and deep generative modeling.

The paper explores statistical and topological properties of sliced probability divergences.

problem Understanding the topological, statistical, and computational consequences of slicing divergences.
method Deriving theoretical properties of sliced probability divergences, including metric axioms preservation and weak continuity.
result Sliced divergences share similar topological properties and have stable sample complexity.

New method constructs translationally equivariant hyperbolic affine spheres.

problem Constructing translationally equivariant hyperbolic affine spheres.
method Noncompact Iwasawa factorization via DPW method and Weierstrass elliptic functions.
result Every translationally equivariant hyperbolic affine sphere is equiaffinely equivalent to one with a circle, hyperbola, or parabola slice curve.

Local well-posedness proved for Bartnik static extension near Schwarzschild spheres.

problem Proving well-posedness for the Bartnik static extension problem near Schwarzschild spheres.
method Introduced a geodesic gauge to formulate governing equations as coupled elliptic and transport equations; used Bochner-measurable functions for transport equations.
result Established local well-posedness for arbitrary Bartnik data near Schwarzschild spheres, including those with small mean curvature.

Generative adversarial nets (GANs) and variational auto-encoders have significantly improved our distribution modeling capabilities, showing promise for dataset augmentation, image-to-image translation and feature learning. However, to model high-dimensional distributions, sequential training and stacked architectures …

2019-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

An irreducible representation of the free group on two generators X,Y into SL(2,C) is determined up to conjugation by the traces of X,Y and XY. We study the diagonal slice of representations for which X,Y and XY have equal trace. Using the three-fold symmetry and Keen-Series pleating rays we locate those groups which a…

2014-09-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Study efficient iterative method for distribution matching using sliced optimal transport.

problem Efficiently match distributions using sliced optimal transport.
method Slice-matching scheme based on sliced optimal transport, with quantitative non-asymptotic rates derived.
result Derive quantitative non-asymptotic rates for convergence to target distribution.

In this article we construct a family of knot surgery 44-manifolds admitting arbitrarily many nonisomorphic Lefschetz fibration structures with the same genus fiber. We obtain such families by performing knot surgery on an elliptic surface E(2)E(2) using connected sums of fibered knots obtained by Stallings twist from a…

2015-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes an energy-based sliced Wasserstein distance for improved probability measure comparison.

problem Inefficiencies and limitations in existing sliced Wasserstein distance approaches.
method Introduces an energy-based slicing distribution for better performance and stability.
result Demonstrates superior performance of the EBSW distance in various applications.

A new approach simplifies Sliced-Wasserstein distances to improve learning performance.

problem The concentration of measure phenomenon makes random projections uninformative in high dimensions.
method Propose rescaling the 1D Wasserstein distance to make all slices equally informative.
result The classical Sliced-Wasserstein, properly configured, can match or surpass complex variants.

Integrals of linearly constrained multivariate Gaussian densities are a frequent problem in machine learning and statistics, arising in tasks like generalized linear models and Bayesian optimization. Yet they are notoriously hard to compute, and to further complicate matters, the numerical values of such integrals may …

2019-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Gaussian processes are flexible function approximators, with inductive biases controlled by a covariance kernel. Learning the kernel is the key to representation learning and strong predictive performance. In this paper, we develop functional kernel learning (FKL) to directly infer functional posteriors over kernels. I…

2019-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Gradient-guided nested sampling improves posterior inference efficiency.

problem Efficiently sampling from complex posterior distributions.
method Gradient-guided nested sampling combining differentiable programming, Hamiltonian slice sampling, clustering, mode separation, dynamic nested sampling, and parallelization.
result Significantly faster mode discovery and more accurate partition function estimates.

The Gaussian process (GP) is a popular way to specify dependencies between random variables in a probabilistic model. In the Bayesian framework the covariance structure can be specified using unknown hyperparameters. Integrating over these hyperparameters considers different possible explanations for the data when maki…

2010-06-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Empower efficient representation of distributions through moment-preserving methods.

problem Representing high-dimensional probability measures efficiently and accurately.
method Empower efficient representation of distributions through moment-preserving methods.
result Empowers efficient and accurate representation of high-dimensional probability measures.

Exploratory cancer drug studies test multiple tumor cell lines against multiple candidate drugs. The goal in each paired (cell line, drug) experiment is to map out the dose-response curve of the cell line as the dose level of the drug increases. We propose Bayesian Tensor Filtering (BTF), a hierarchical Bayesian model …

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A permutation-based SW test achieves minimax-optimal power for two-sample testing.

problem Nonparametric two-sample testing using the sliced Wasserstein distance.
method Proposes a permutation-based SW test and analyzes its performance.
result Achieves minimax separation rate n1/2n^{-1/2} over multinomial and bounded-support alternatives.

Proposes an online method for high-dimensional streaming data.

problem Increasing variable dimensions with sample size in online kernel sliced inverse regression.
method Introduces approximate linear dependence condition and dictionary variable sets to address the problem. Transforms into online generalized eigen-decomposition problem and uses stochastic optimization for updates.
result Achieves close performance to batch processing kernel sliced inverse regression.

Sharp bounds for max-sliced Wasserstein distances derived for empirical distributions.

problem Estimating the expected max-sliced Wasserstein distance between a probability measure and its empirical distribution.
method Banach space version and operator norm approach for upper bounds.
result Upper bounds for max-sliced Wasserstein distances are essentially matching and sharp up to a log factor.

A new distance measure balances projection exploration and informativeness.

problem Inefficient and incomplete projection sampling in existing sliced-Wasserstein distances.
method Proposes Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein (DSW) that optimally balances projection exploration and informativeness.
result DSW generalizes Max-SW and can be computed efficiently.

In this paper we discuss a class of AutoEncoder based generative models based on one dimensional sliced approach. The idea is based on the reduction of the discrimination between samples to one-dimensional case. Our experiments show that methods can be divided into two groups. First consists of methods which are a modi…

2019-01-29abs ↗pdf ↗